St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-20
TRUE LOVES COURSE.
In the Case of Nina Van Zandt at LeaA
it is Running Anything But
Smoothly.
A Hard Hearted Sheriff Will Not Allow
Her to be Married to August
Spies,
And Now Even Refuses to Grant HeI
Admission to the County
Jail.
A Talk With Mrs. Arthurs at Pitts.
burg--Nfna's Philadelphia
Record.

CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-Sheriff MatSon pos.
itively refuses to allow the marriage of
Spies, the condemned anarchist, and Nina
Van Zandt to take place. He says:
am surprised that her parents have even
permitted the girl to visit the JAIL and much
more that they would consent to let her wed
in prison, and that they will not attempt to
save their own child from never ending
shame and disgrace [ shall see that she iS'
at least given chance to look before she
leaps. L have consulted with a good manE
persons during the last few days, and
l find that the public opinion is al
most unanimously against the marriage. 1t ia
SO strong, in fact, that after talking the mat
ter over with States Attorney Grinuell I am
firmly resolved that the marriage should bs
indefinitely postponed. I hope that Miss Vas
Zandt and her friends will be reco nciled I'd
wait, and believe that my views are right, but
whether they do or not, am confident that
| the people of Chicago will applaud my course.
1t is not necessary to ask how L shall prevent
| 1T. Spies is my prisoner, and as such is enti-
tied to only such privileges or liberties as
may think proper to give him. The only per-
| son whom am obliged to allow access to him
| is his lawyer.
| Miss Van Zandt appeared quite indiffer-
ent when told of the sheriff's decision. but
refused to be interviewed on the subject.
Miss Van Zandt appeared in the Jail about
10 o'clock this morning and sought an inter-
view with Spies. The Jail officials, how
eyer in obedience to the sheriffs orders,
refused to allow her to enter.
This evening a statement gained credence
i'll some quarters that a very effeminate-
| looking, small and lightly built young man,
with fair complexion and smooth face, had
presented himself at the Jail door and asked
| to see Spies. He was refused, but con-
tinued 10 plead. and finally made the as.
founding admission that
HE WAS A WOMAN.
| 1t is stated he was given the alternative
of quietly returning home or at once incur
ring arrest for masQuerading in masculine
apparel. The former was quickly chosen.
Jail Clerk Price denies the occurrence abso-
lutely. The sheriff's deputies were.
however, said to be taking measures
| to checkmate q ruSe to Smuggl6
a justice of the peace inside the jail, and
while Miss Van Zandt is present, during
the hours when the condemned anarchists
are allowed out of their cells for exercise,
| have the ceremony performed through the
wire screen separating the visitors cage
from the jail proper. The idea is that a
number of visitors, consisting of friends of
the prisoners, would be crowding around
them to hide Spies and Miss Van Zandt
from the officials during the minute or two
necessary to complete the ceremony.
AT PITTsBURG.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 19.-Mrs. Arthurs,
aunt of Miss Van Zandt, was seen by a
reporter this afternoon. She said that she
had just half an hour previously received
advices from Chicago Of the Sheriff's action.
The lady. who looked like one who
had suffered great mental distress.
said that she highly commended
the frmness and manhood of the
Chicago official, adding that even for Miss
Van Zandt she thought it was the kindest
and most considerate thing that could have
been done, las" she continued, "the
young lady herself will no doubt acknowl-
edge in the years to Gomez The anxiety
| and suspense of this affair. have seriously
affected Mrs. Arthurs' father, who has
! been keeping his bed for the last few days.
Adverting to Spies the lady said that she
had information he had been filling Miss
Van Zandts head with the notion that he
was very much out of the common, stating
that lie was the son of provisional
governor, and that he was burG
in the castle Laudeck. 1t is thought posi-.
BILE that this may have had some effect upon
the young lady'S imagination. Outside this
unfortunate business Mrs. Arthurs had only
the most kindly words Tor her niece, saying
that she wondered at such an escapade, as
her niece is an exceptionally bright and in
tellectual young lady. AS to the sheriff'S
action in the premises and how far it would
be final, Mrs. Arthurs was of course able to
give no opinion, but very earnestly hoped
he would maintain the position with which
he had started. Concluding, she said: His
| action has at least for the present taken q
mountain of anxiety off our minds"
AT PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.-Miss Nina
Clarke Van Zandt, who is to marry August
Spies, the condemned Chicago anarchist, is
we'll remembered by many people in this
city, where she was born and where her
childhood was passed. The family resided
for many years on Master street, near
Eighteenth, and the neighbors who recall
the little miss of 10 or II years of age, as
last seen by them, describe her as a child
full of life and tending toward the genus
known as ''Tom-boy," and manifesting az
that early age the self-will and determine
ton which have characterized her so
| strongly in her relations with her lover, the
anarchist Spies.
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